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Mind the Mind Gap
While developing countries have been catching up to their richer counterparts on some key metrics, they appear to be falling behind on others. Most worrisome is…
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Social Media: Activism or Amusement?
Social media generally holds nothing beyond entertainment value for many. After the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Nepal-based social media users have been relentlessly posting on social…
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
This comes just in time for an age when baffled and agitated citizens are questioning the value of medical science, and particularly government regulations based on…
Analysis
Afghanistan: What Next?
IN the last few weeks there have been several articles in the media worldwide on how the present state of affairs was arrived at in Afghanistan.…
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Quad Meets ‘Saigon Moment’
Abandonment of allies dents the credibility of a superpower, which is probably why Kamala Harris’s remarks on Indo-Pacific didn’t have a strident aggressive anti-China rhetoric. The…
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Access to Justice Against Gender-Based Violence
The recently increasing incidents in a row expose the fault line on which women are standing in Pakistan Of late, many violent cases against women have…
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The Political Fallout from the Afghanistan Debacle Is Reaching Europe
The abrupt collapse of Afghanistan’s NATO-backed government in the wake of the departure of U.S. forces cast a sharp, critical spotlight on U.S. President Joe Biden.…
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Lessons for Russia From the U.S. Leadership Crisis
It would be foolish to assume the American withdrawal from Afghanistan will be repeated everywhere else that there is a U.S. presence. U.S. President Joe Biden’s…
Analysis
Glasgow COP is Near: Fix Rewards for Aggressive Mitigation of Goal
The race to keep global climate stable seems irrevocably loaded against us, already As rational beings, we should expect the worst, much before the turn of…
Analysis
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: What Should We Expect?
Afghanistan is now under the reins of the Taliban. No, they have not come to power through the ballot box, rather they have accomplished it by…
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A Tale of Two Pakistans
Recent UNDP publication reveals that it is the best of times for privileged few and the worst for the underprivileged Charles Dickens’s epic novel A Tale…
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What Happens to India’s ‘Plurilateralism’ after Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
In his recent book titled The Indian Way (Harper Collins, 2020), Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, wrote: “It is time for us to engage America, manage China,…